Humboldt Historian

This cheerful painting of the longtime Humboldt Bay ferry Antelope II was made by the late Edward Henley. He donated a photograph of the painting to the Historical Society in Octoberof2003. On the back of the photograph, he writes: “The Coggeshall Launch & Tow Company Stern Wheeler Ferry Boat Antelope, as I remember it from my boyhood days in the 1930s.” Many Humboldters will remember the Antelope, which plied the bay waters for almost half a century. Bill Hilfiker remembers her well: he writes about the Antelope and many other longtime Humboldt enterprises in his article “Early Humboldt Companies,” beginning on page 26 of this issue.

— On The Cover

A Distant Horizon Called Home, Part IISuzanne ForsythIn our last issue, the Munchheimer family story took us from Nazi Germany to Africa to Jamaica. This issue it brings us to the United States and, ultimately, to Rio Dell.

Eureka High School's Albee StadiumJeremiah Scott, Jr.Humboldt’s first modern stadium and the man who built it.